Update: Warcraft Rumble cards (such as Warsong Grunt and Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot are currently playable in the format, but it’s a mistake and they will be banned soon in a hotfix patch.
Twist is back for another season. The mode was first released into Beta back in June 2023 as the first major addition to Hearthstone since Mercenaries (which, looking back at it, was a mostly failed experiment). The idea behind Twist is that the format will rotate every couple of seasons, changing the list of available expansions, possibly with some extra rules.
Current Twist Format – Wonders
Wonders is a repeat format. It originally ran in the September 2023 season, with two variations in later seasons.
Wonders is a Constructed format “celebrating the early years of Hearthstone”. You build a 30-card deck using cards from the following expansions:
- Legacy (which is distinct from Core and Classic)
- Curse of Naxxramas
- Goblins vs Gnomes
- Blackrock Mountain
- The Grand Tournament
- The League of Explorers
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- One Night in Karazhan
- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan
- Caverns of Time
Other than deck-building limitations, the format has no extra rules.
Demon Hunter and Death Knight are banned from the format since the classes didn’t exist back during those expansions.
Twist (Wonders) Deck Lists
The current Twist season has just started, so we don’t have any new decks yet. However, since it’s a repeat format, we still have a bunch of builds from the last time this format was played. I’ll share some of them below – they might not be optimal right now (the format went through some balance changes), but they should be a good starting point.
New Decks (December 2024)
- 0Backstab2
- 0Counterfeit Coin2
- 0Preparation2
- 0Shadowstep2
- 1Cold Blood1
- 1Jade Swarmer2
- 1Swashburglar1
- 2Eviscerate2
- 2Jade Shuriken2
- 2Sap1
- 3Edwin VanCleef1
- 3SI:7 Agent2
- 4Jade Telegram2
- 4The Scarab Lord1
- 5Sprint2
- 0Inner Rage2
- 1Blood To Ichor2
- 1Execute2
- 1Slam2
- 1Whirlwind2
- 2Armorsmith2
- 2Bash1
- 2Battle Rage2
- 2Fiery War Axe1
- 2Shield Block2
- 3Frothing Berserker2
- 3Warsong Commander2
- 4Death’s Bite2
Old Decks (September-October 2023)
- 0Backstab2
- 0Preparation2
- 1Jade Swarmer2
- 1Swashburglar2
- 2Eviscerate2
- 2Fan of Knives2
- 2Jade Shuriken2
- 4Jade Telegram2
- 4The Scarab Lord1
- 5Sprint2
- 0Backstab2
- 0Preparation2
- 0Shadowstep1
- 1Jade Swarmer2
- 2Fan of Knives2
- 2Jade Shuriken2
- 2Sap1
- 4Jade Telegram2
- 4The Scarab Lord1
- 5Sprint2
- 7Blade of C’Thun2
- 1Execute1
- 1Shield Slam2
- 1Slam2
- 2Bash2
- 2Fiery War Axe2
- 2Shield Block2
- 2Stolen Goods1
- 4Blast from the Past2
- 4Death’s Bite1
- 4Ivory Rook2
- 5Alley Armorsmith2
- 5Brawl1
- 6Iron Juggernaut1
- 0Innervate2
- 1Cenarion Hold2
- 1Jade Idol2
- 2Invigorate2
- 2Wrath2
- 3Jade Blossom2
- 3Mulch2
- 3Swipe2
- 5Jade Behemoth2
- 5Nourish2
- 7Ancient of Lore2
- 10Kun the Forgotten King1
- 0Backstab2
- 0Counterfeit Coin2
- 0Preparation2
- 1Sinister Strike2
- 2Eviscerate2
- 2Fan of Knives2
- 2Jade Shuriken2
- 2Shiv2
- 3Edwin VanCleef1
- 4The Scarab Lord1
- 5Sprint2
- 1Mistress of Mixtures1
- 2Doomsayer1
- 2Sunfury Protector1
- 2Youthful Brewmaster1
- 3Brann Bronzebeard1
- 3Deathlord1
- 3Timeline Accelerator1
- 4Kazakus1
- 4Refreshment Vendor1
- 4Twilight Drake1
- 5Antique Healbot1
- 5Emperor Thaurissan1
- 5Faceless Manipulator1
- 5Leeroy Jenkins1
- 5Mind Control Tech1
- 5Sludge Belcher1
- 6Cairne Bloodhoof1
- 6Reno Jackson1
- 6Sylvanas Windrunner1
- 8Sneed’s Old Shredder1
- 9Alexstrasza1
- 10N’Zoth, The Corruptor1
- 12Mountain Giant1
- 0Innervate2
- 0Moonfire2
- 1Cenarion Hold2
- 1Living Roots2
- 1Raven Idol2
- 2Invigorate2
- 3Mulch1
- 3Swipe2
- 5Nourish2
- 7Ancient of Lore2
- 9Aviana1
- 10Kun the Forgotten King1
- 0Silence1
- 1Crimson Clergy1
- 1Holy Smite1
- 1Inner Fire1
- 1Northshire Cleric1
- 1Potion of Madness1
- 1Power Word: Shield1
- 2Museum Curator1
- 2Shadow Word: Death1
- 2Thoughtsteal1
- 3Holy Nova1
- 4Greater Healing Potion1
- 4Shadow Word: Ruin1
- 5Dragonfire Potion1
- 5Excavated Evil1
- 5Raza the Chained1
- 7Confessor Paletress1
- 7Murozond, Thief of Time1
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This is a really fun idea for oldschool players. It is bugged already on day 1: it is not legacy but just the og basic cards with a pinch of cards that were introduced as hall of fame replacements such as brightwing.
For the record, I am having a blast though (pun intended) with some spell damage basivc mage deck.
It took me longer than I want to admit that this is the same thread for all seasons, and was very confused by some of the deck suggestions below. LOL
*to figure out
(We need an edit button, here.)
This mode is fun if you want to play against Jade Rogue for 90%+ of your matches despite the new “seasons”
I don’t come across Jade Rogue very often. The last two days have been very diverse between dude paladin, secret paladin, inner fire priest, freeze/burn mage, miracle rogue, jade rogue, jade druid, reno decks, lots of different stuff really. Sadly not many decks that give off “real” un’goro vibes, like elementals or quest decks though.
I’ve been running into a lot of zoo decks personally, it’s been making things awkward playing mill druid with Clockwork Giant and Hogrider
Hey guys, i reached legend with a priest deck, but couldn’t upload it here because of the deck builder. I posted it on twitter tagging your profile there.
@Aboba001816851
I don’t like Wonders XL as much. I’m so glad that these formats only last a month. I can play another mode in the meantime.
That warlock deck looks amazingly fun. Quick note: there are 2 Leeroy’s in the list above. One should be a Rag. 🙂
you wrote:
“Update: Sword Eater was removed from Twist Wonders in a recent hotfix, because it was not supposed to be there in the first place (Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is not a part of the format).”
Apparently Gadgetzan IS part of the format, but Sword Eater is from Darkmoon, and THAT set is not part of Twist Wonders
My bad, fixed it.
Sword Eater doesn’t exist in my card pool anymore … I was able to build (and play) decks with him, but since yesterday, the card is red in existing deck lists and is not available in the Warrior card pool anymore.
Moreover, some cards are shown weirdly in the collection.. Acolyte of Pain, for example, is shown 3 times: 2 normal (Core Set), 2 golden (Core Set) and the 2 golden copies I own, which are marked ‘banned’.
Blizzard still a small indie company, it seems.
I don’t know for the other cards, but for sword eater
“Fixed a bug where Sword Eater was playable in Twist, even though it is not in one of the legal expansions for this season”.
Thanks for the decks lists but i don’t know what’s wrong because all the decks code are failing to import into the game. HS doesnt detect the code as it should be usually inside your collection. Maybe because they rushed the Twist mode into the game and something is broken.
I tested import of standard deck list and it’s working so it’s really only the Twis mode import who doesn’t work !
I can import the Paladin and Hunter decks that do not include any of the brand-new cards from Caverns. I also cannot get the others to work.
Thanks for the report, I sort of fixed it! They still import as Wild, but you can convert them to Twist with one button.
Thanks ! Now i could import all the decks but some cant work even after the conversion into Twist because some cards are in red like for exemple in the war control : acolyte of pain or fiery axe.
How is it possible this cards are banned in twits if the player made it legend with this list ?
Sorry, I think deck codes might contain wrong version of the card. The cards on our website are prioritizing Core version and Core is not available in Twist.
But it can be fixed by taking those cards out of the deck, searching for them and adding them back in.
I’ll try to do something about deck codes but it’s hard with so many different formats and the fact that Twist will have different expansions every month :/
You know what is more a shame from Blizzard ? I spent some golds on Caverns of Time packs and i got a lot of copy of cards i aleady have (example Jade Behemoth from Gadgetzan) so it mean they gave me new copy of cards that i already have but they replaced the old cards by by the new cards. The old cards completely diseappeared in my collection and i don’t get dust or any compensation for that tt’s a total scam !
No explanation within Hearthstone what rules the Season 1 Twist format has?
And why on earth is there no filter for Caverns of Time? That way, it’s superdifficult to craft some of the cards if you don’t want to ‘massbuy’ the set… best thing I found is to filter for missing cards in Twist…
Very poorly executed imho.
The in-game filter for Caverns of Time is at the top of the Wild expansions. You need to scroll down a bit from the Standard expansions. There have been some display bugs with Caverns reprints though, there are cases where you cannot see them – also in crafting view – if you own exactly one copy of the reprint and two copies of the original.
Thanks for pointing that out – although I could swear I looked it up and the expansion button wasn’t there a few days ago …
And it seems I’m too dumb to use the filters – After filtering for ‘Caverns’ ‘missing’ with checked boxes ‘Normal – Missing’ and ‘Premium – Owned’, lots of golden wild cards I own aren’t shown (all the Shaman Jade cards, for example).
Ah well, I did it the other way round and checked which cards are played in Wild, then crafted some of those.